side-by-side.tex

\documentclass[a4paper]{scrreprt}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{graphics}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Your Chapter}
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\begin{figure}[ht]
    \begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\linewidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{YourImage.jpg}
        \caption{South American coati}
        \label{fig:nasua}
    \end{minipage}
    \hspace{0.5cm}
    \begin{minipage}[b]{0.45\linewidth}
        \centering
        \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{Ursus-arctos.jpg}
        \caption{Brown bear}
        \label{fig:Ursus-arctos}
    \end{minipage}
\end{figure}

You can now see that a Nasua nasua in figure \ref{fig:nasua} and a Ursus-arctos
in figure \ref{fig:Ursus-arctos}. Note that you have to run LaTeX twice and
don't delete intermediate files when you want to use ref.

\end{document}